Originally Posted by mongo

i am going to give em the benefit of doubt, and say, that

somewhere in the system is an actual metric of how many members are actually paid and current and alive each year. add in the life member numbers and it should be a current total for that year.

this number should be known to someone in the operational sector of the AMA, each year.

now, none of the above means that any of us, will ever see or know that actual number.